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TIL Dendrophilia is the sexual arousal from trees.

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wZZ7 TIL 90% of US LSD was once produced at Bexley, a dorm on MIT campus. When the FBI raided the building, they were greeted with a plate of milk and cookies, but no lab.
5Vyen TIL Tuataras, native to New Zealand, are the last surviving member of the Rhynchocephalia, an order of reptiles that diverged from what would become lizards and snakes sometime around the Triassic.
d8vK8 TIL of a 1993 proposal to build a giant advertising billboard in outer space that would appear roughly the same size and brightness as the moon. The project didnt meet funding and inspired a bill to ban all advertisement in outer space.
jNeBN TIL of a 2014 lawsuit against Canon over a printer error code that would appear shortly after the warranty expired, which they settled out of court after agreeing to extend the warranty to anyone experiencing this code. The issue still exists in their new printers, under a different error code.
neLM7 TIL of the Shard of Harry. In the MMO Asheron's Call, a group of players defended a shard that needed to be destroyed for the game to progress and killed any player that attempted to do that. Eventually the developers tried to defeat the defenders with their own characters. They were also killed.